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Need Fast, Non-Surgical Relief for Lower Back Pain? An Epidural Injection May Be the Answer.

Doctors and pain specialists generally recommend natural, non-surgical, and non-opioid treatments for pain. Physical therapy, massage, over-the-counter medicines, and hot and cold therapy are a few of the most common first-line treatments. Fast-Acting Pain Relief for Weeks or Months However, your doctor or pain specialist may recommend an epidural injection or nerve block when you […]

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That nagging shoulder pain that’s hung around a while could be more than a pulled muscle. Weekend sports, carrying and moving things, horsing around with your kids, reaching to wash your back in the shower – whatever life brings your way, if it ends with shoulder pain and weakness, it may be a torn rotator […]

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Doctors and pain specialists generally recommend natural, non-surgical, and non-opioid treatments for pain.

Physical therapy, massage, over-the-counter medicines, and hot and cold therapy are a few of the most common first-line treatments.

Fast-Acting Pain Relief for Weeks or Months

However, your doctor or pain specialist may recommend an epidural injection or nerve block when you have nerve-related pain in your lower back and legs.

Epidural injections for back pain are a powerful, non-invasive treatment that can provide pain relief for several months.

How They Work

Epidural injections can:

Provide local pain relief.
Block pain signals sent from the surrounding nerves.
Temporarily cut off all sensory and motor neurons from below the injection site.
Reduce swelling and inflammation.

An injection contains either an anesthetic, a corticosteroid, or both.

The anesthetic stops the nerves around the injection site from sending pain signals, and the corticosteroid reduces the swelling and inflammation.

When targeting herniated discs and swelling, epidurals may take 24 to 48 hours to start working.

Conditions epidural injections can help heal and provide pain relief for include:

pinched nerve
pain radiating from the spine
degenerative disc disease
herniated or bulging disc
recovery from back surgery
spondylolisthesis
spinal stenosis
Sciatica

Conditions they don’t help to heal and provide pain relief for include:

general back pain (non-nerve related pain)
pain from bone spurs
pain from cancerous or non-cancerous growths
pain from pulled muscles

Epidural injections may temporarily relieve pain from bone spurs or growths, which irritate the surrounding tissue and nerves.

However, this temporary relief will only delay other treatments or interventions (such as surgery).

Why Get One?

Epidural injections can be a temporary pain fix when you need to “buy time” for your back to heal from an injury.

They can also provide pain relief from a chronic pain condition as you go through physical therapy or other treatments with delayed benefits.

Though you will have to visit your pain physician and endure a little pain from the injection, it may save you weeks or months of popping pain meds.

And with an epidural injection, there’s no risk of addiction (unlike even short-term opioid prescriptions).

Back Pain Treatment in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Irving

Texas Pain Physicians is a leading patient-centered pain practice in Dallas, Houston, Irving, San Antonio, and the surrounding areas.

Our pain specialists partner with you to help you achieve long-lasting pain relief.

Please give us a call today at (972) 636-5727 or book an appointment online.

Get that (Suspected) Rotator Cuff Injury Diagnosed and Treated ASAP!

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That nagging shoulder pain that’s hung around a while could be more than a pulled muscle.

Weekend sports, carrying and moving things, horsing around with your kids, reaching to wash your back in the shower – whatever life brings your way, if it ends with shoulder pain and weakness, it may be a torn rotator cuff.

Please see a specialist ASAP.

The rotator cuff is the group of muscles that keep the shoulder stable.

And torn rotator cuffs DON’T heal on their own.

You could develop a painful degenerative rotator cuff issue without timely surgical repair.

Also, as you age into your 40s and beyond, arthritis is more and more likely to set in.

Arthritic shoulder degeneration will eventually require shoulder replacement surgery.

What to expect from your visit.

The first appointment with a pain specialist is similar to an appointment with a general practitioner.

First, they will take down your medical history.

Next, they will give you a physical exam and take some x-rays.

If there is muscle weakness in the shoulder, they will typically order an MRI appointment at a medical imaging facility.

Treatment

Pain specialists will recommend natural, conservative treatments such as over-the-counter medicines and physical therapy whenever possible.

Conservative Therapies

Rest, heat and cold therapy (cold and hot compresses and packs), and anti-inflammatory medication such as aspirin can help soothe and heal minor rotator cuff injuries.

Physical Therapy

Physical therapists are experts in restoring function and lessening the pain and stiffness of rotator cuff injuries.

Pain specialists often recommend physical therapists.

Whether you need to heal after a muscle pull or rehab after rotator cuff surgery, they can help speed the process.

Steroid Injection

If you have severe shoulder pain, your pain therapist may recommend a corticosteroid injection.

These injections can provide pain relief for up to several months.

However, this is not a long-term pain management solution because multiple steroid injections can cause permanent tendon weakness.

Surgery

Surgery may be needed for severe rotator cuff injuries – whether they happened a while ago and have become degenerative or were recently torn.

Three types of rotator cuff surgery:

1. Tendon repair – Minor, arthroscopic (small incision) procedure, and an open or large incision procedure.

2. Tendon transfer – Involves replacing the damaged tendon with a tendon taken from another body part.

3. Shoulder replacement – The most invasive procedure for the most severe injuries, degeneration, and severe arthritis.

Rotator Cuff Treatment in Dallas, Houston, Irving, and Other Texas Locales

If you’re experiencing shoulder pain and think you may have a torn rotator cuff or another injury, Texas Pain Physicians can help.

Our shoulder specialists can find the cause of your pain and develop a personalized treatment plan.

Please give us a call today at (972) 636-5727 or book an appointment online.

Our Locations

PEARLAND - HOUSTON
2243 Park Ave,
Pearland, TX 77581

(281) 616-3314
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(972) 666-1504

IRVING
7200 N. State Highway 161, Ste. 200
Irving, TX 75039

(972) 559-3501
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(972) 559-3529

MESQUITE
910 N Galloway Ave, Ste 302
Mesquite, TX 75149

(972) 301-8897
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(972) 997-1299

NORTH DALLAS
10 Medical Pkwy Plaza 3 Suite 106
Farmers Branch, TX 75234

(972) 636-5727
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(972) 666-1504

PLANO
5068 W. Plano Parkway ste 170
Plano, Texas 75093.

(972) 636-5727
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(972) 666-1504

ROCKWALL
3013 Ridge Road, Ste. 101
Rockwall, TX 75032

(972) 636-5727
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(469) 264-5192

STONE OAK - SAN ANTONIO
1202 E Sonterra Blvd, Ste 101
San Antonio, TX 78258

(210) 546-1410
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(210) 546-1419

SOUTHLAKE
241 W. Southlake Blvd., Ste 140
Southlake, TX 76092

(972) 301-8896
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(972) 997-1298

NORTH RICHLAND HILLS
8221 Mid Cities Blvd, Ste 100
North Richland Hills, TX 76182

(214) 666-8077
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(469) 640-6400

WAXAHACHIE
600 Ferris Ave
Waxahachie, TX 75165

(972) 497-2655
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(214) 238-5242

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Need Fast, Non-Surgical Relief for Lower Back Pain? An Epidural Injection May Be the Answer.

Get that (Suspected) Rotator Cuff Injury Diagnosed and Treated ASAP!

Need Fast, Non-Surgical Relief for Lower Back Pain? An Epidural Injection May Be the Answer.

Get that (Suspected) Rotator Cuff Injury Diagnosed and Treated ASAP!

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Need Fast, Non-Surgical Relief for Lower Back Pain? An Epidural Injection May Be the Answer.

Fast-Acting Pain Relief for Weeks or Months

How They Work

Conditions epidural injections can help heal and provide pain relief for include:

Conditions they don’t help to heal and provide pain relief for include:

Why Get One?

Back Pain Treatment in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Irving

Get that (Suspected) Rotator Cuff Injury Diagnosed and Treated ASAP!

Please see a specialist ASAP.

What to expect from your visit.

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